Council approves 1.6 percent tax hike

8:17 PM,
Nov. 28, 2012

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The Oshkosh Common Council took advantage of a rare ability to increase spending to add more than $540,000 in new tax levy into the 2013 budget Tuesday night.

The increase tax revenue will restore three firefighters and a nurse at the Oshkosh Senior Center, avoid furloughs in two city departments, replenish the city's undesignated fund balance and bolster equipment purchase funds to reduce long-term borrowing costs.

The added spending pushed City Manager Mark Rohloff's proposed $65.5 million budget up to $66 million and increased the tax levy from $30.1 million to $30.6 million. ...